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(and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch....">Acts 5:12-16</a></span> The apostles work many miracles, to the great increase<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>of the faith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/acts/5-17.htm" title="Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,...">Acts 5:17-28</a></span> They are all imprisoned, but released by an angel, and<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>sent to preach openly in the temple: being brought<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>before the council,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/acts/5-29.htm" title="Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men....">Acts 5:29-32</a></span> they support their witness with great freedom.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/acts/5-33.htm" title="When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them....">Acts 5:33-40</a></span> The council are restrained from killing them by the<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>advice of Gamaliel, but beat and dismiss them with a<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>charge not to speak in the name of Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/acts/5-41.htm" title="And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name....">Acts 5:41-42</a></span> They rejoice in their sufferings, and cease not to<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>preach Christ both in public and private.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> A dreadful instance of God’s indignation against hypocrisy and sacrilege, which we have an infallible testimony of; which is the more remarkable, because such sins escape punishment from men, either as not known, or not disliked; yet the <span class="ital">damnation</span> of such as are guilty of them <span class="ital">slumbereth not, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm" title="And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.">2 Peter 2:3</a></span>, it being the glory of God to search out matters further than men can, or list to do. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">A possession; </span> an estate, house, or farm. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-2.htm">Acts 5:2</a></div><div class="verse">And kept back <i>part</i> of the price, his wife also being privy <i>to it</i>, and brought a certain part, and laid <i>it</i> at the apostles' feet.</div> <span class="bld">Kept back part of the price, </span> when they had vowed the whole to God and his service, which made it a robbing of God, whatsoever pretence they might possibly have of detaining some part for their own necessities in old age, or time of sickness; arguing a great distrust in that God, whom, when they had made their vow, they pretended to give themselves and their substance unto. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">His wife also being privy to it; </span> her subjection to her husband not excusing her partaking in his sin and punishment. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Brought a certain part; </span> their ambition carried them thus far, they would seem devout, charitable, &c., and their covetousness hindered them from going farther. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Laid it at the apostles’ feet:</span> see <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/4-35.htm" title="And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made to every man according as he had need.">Acts 4:35</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="3"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-3.htm">Acts 5:3</a></div><div class="verse">But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back <i>part</i> of the price of the land?</div> <span class="bld">But Peter said; </span> Peter knew this deceit by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; it being most probably not otherwise likely ever to be discovered. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Satan filled thine heart:</span> as when the heart is filled with hot spirits it is daring and bold, so when Satan filled their heart these wretches venture upon desperate courses and provoking sins. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">To lie to the Holy Ghost; </span> this sin is said to be lying to the Holy Ghost: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. Because against their own consciences, and the Spirit of God too witnessing with their spirits, <span class="bld"><a href="/romans/9-1.htm" title="I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,">Romans 9:1</a></span>. As also: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. Because they pretended to holiness, and the service of God, when they intended only to serve their own turns; now the Spirit is in a peculiar manner the Spirit of holiness, and the author of it in us, whom they pretended to have been moved by, but falsely. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. And, lastly: Defrauding the poor members of Christ of their right, (for so by their vow it became), they lied to the Holy Ghost, who constitutes and establishes the church, and accepteth these gifts as given to God, and not to men. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="4"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-4.htm">Acts 5:4</a></div><div class="verse">Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.</div> <span class="bld">Whiles it remained, was it not thine own?</span> A sufficient argument that there was no command (even then) to necessitate them to part with their estates, but only what the present and eminent necessity of the church did persuade them voluntarily unto. The doubling of this expostulation makes the conviction the more forcible. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">In thine own power; </span> as a steward under God, to do what thou wouldst with it according to his will; and none are, or can be, otherwise disposers of what they possess. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?</span> It seems hence, that it was a deliberate and propensed iniquity. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God:</span> in that lying unto God is so often charged, and no express mention is made of Ananias’s vow, some excuse him of sacrilege, and charge him the more deeply with ambition, covetousness, lying, and hypocrisy, to the apostles, whom he intended to deceive. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="5"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-5.htm">Acts 5:5</a></div><div class="verse">And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.</div> <span class="bld">Fell down and gave up the ghost; </span> expired and died. Some instances of God’s extraordinary judgments upon sinners were in the beginning of the Jewish church; as upon the man that gathered sticks on the sabbath day, <span class="bld"><a href="/numbers/15-35.htm" title="And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.">Numbers 15:35</a></span>, and upon Nadab and Abihu, <span class="bld"><a href="/leviticus/10-1.htm" title="And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.">Leviticus 10:1</a>,2</span>; and so here in the beginning of the Christian church; to be as marks to teach us to shun such sins, and to teach us that the God with whom we have to do is greatly to be feared. And this miraculous way of punishing notorious sinners in the church, was accommodated to such a time, in which magistrates were so far from defending the church, that they themselves were the greatest enemies unto it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">And great fear came on all them that heard these things:</span> let others also hear, and fear, and do so no more. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="6"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-6.htm">Acts 5:6</a></div><div class="verse">And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried <i>him</i> out, and buried <i>him</i>.</div> <span class="bld">The young men; </span> such as were present at that time, and fittest for that employ. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Wound him up; </span> according as they were wont to do to such as they intended to prepare the sepulture. Read what was done to the body of our Saviour, <span class="bld"><a href="/mark/15-46.htm" title="And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.">Mark 15:46</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="7"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-7.htm">Acts 5:7</a></div><div class="verse">And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.</div> <span class="bld">About the space of three hours after; </span> in his circumstance is expressed to confirm the truth of this history. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Not knowing what was done; </span> not suspecting any such thing, she was the less inquisitive; and such a consternation and dread was upon all that were there, that they durst not tell her, lest they should offend Peter; also, probably, lest they should with so sudden and sad news grieve her. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Came in; </span> into the church, or place, where they were met together. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="8"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-8.htm">Acts 5:8</a></div><div class="verse">And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.</div> <span class="bld">Peter answered; </span> an ordinary Hebraism, by which one that speaketh first is said an answer, if it be tending towards my discourse especially. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">For so much; </span> the certain price is not mentioned, as not being necessary to the intent of the Holy Ghost in this narrative; but be it more or less, it was the same which her husband had said the land was sold for. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">She said, Yea; </span> she had agreed with her husband what to say; and one sin draws on another, till it ends in perdition. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="9"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-9.htm">Acts 5:9</a></div><div class="verse">Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband <i>are</i> at the door, and shall carry thee out.</div> <span class="bld">To tempt the Spirit of the Lord; </span> this expression, of tempting God, or the Spirit of God, is not used amongst profane writers; and this sin is not (at least to such a degree) committed amongst pagans and heathens, and is to be dreaded by all that profess the gospel. As often as men sin against their conscience, and their consciences condemn them in what they do, so often they dare, tempt, or try, whether God be omniscient, and knows of, or holy hand powerful, and will punish, their sins; which they find at last to their cost. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The feet of them which have buried thy husband, are at the door; </span> this the apostle foretells ere it came to pass, the more to confirm his authority and the truth of the gospel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Shall carry thee out, </span> after thou art dead, to thy burial. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="10"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-10.htm">Acts 5:10</a></div><div class="verse">Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying <i>her</i> forth, buried <i>her</i> by her husband.</div> The same sins meet with the same punishment; God is no respecter of persons, Jew or Gentile, male or female. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="11"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-11.htm">Acts 5:11</a></div><div class="verse">And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.</div> Thus upon the smiting of so many men in and about Bethshemesh, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_samuel/6-20.htm" title="And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?">1 Samuel 6:20</a></span>, they wisely demand, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God?</span> And upon the slaying of Uzzah, <span class="bld"><a href="/2_samuel/6-9.htm" title="And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?">2 Samuel 6:9</a></span>, <span class="ital">David was afraid of the Lord. Discite justitiam moniti. As many as heard these things, </span> out of the pale of the church: God’s judgments do restain in a great measure wicked men. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="12"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-12.htm">Acts 5:12</a></div><div class="verse">And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.</div> <span class="bld">By the hands of the apostles; </span> by the apostles’ ministry: though they were holy and excellent men, they were but instruments; the power they acted by was God’s; which also they had prayed for and acknowledged, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/4-30.htm" title="By stretching forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus.">Acts 4:30</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Among the people; </span> generally among the meaner sort, according to that question, <span class="ital">Have any of the rulers believed on him?</span> <span class="bld"><a href="/john/7-48.htm" title="Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?">John 7:48</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Not many mighty, not many noble, are called, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_corinthians/1-26.htm" title="For you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:">1 Corinthians 1:26</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">In Solomon’s porch; </span> a large and capacious place, where they might with greatest convenience hear and see what was done and said. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="13"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-13.htm">Acts 5:13</a></div><div class="verse">And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.</div> <span class="bld">Of the rest; </span> such who were not of the common sort of people, and here seem to be distinguished from them: or, <span class="ital">of the rest</span> (more largely) who had not joined themselves to the church, being amazed at this judgment on these two hypocrites, durst not make a formal show of religion, unless they had a thorough persuasion in their mind concerning the truth of it, and a firm resolution in their conversation to live answerably unto it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="14"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-14.htm">Acts 5:14</a></div><div class="verse">And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)</div> This explains the former verse, and helps us against mistaking it, for this wonderful judgment was so far from being a hinderance to the men of the gospel, that it is turned to the furtherance of it; for though great men, and such as were insincere, were terrified from owning Christ and his doctrine, others did more readily embrace them by reason of it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="15"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-15.htm">Acts 5:15</a></div><div class="verse">Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid <i>them</i> on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.</div> <span class="bld">Into the streets; </span> into every street generally taken, it being a common practice where they came, and not in one street only. These weak and unlikely means did more show the power to be of God, and was the greater confirmation to the truth of the gospel; and this was fulfilled what our Saviour had promised to the apostles, and such as should believe in him, <span class="bld"><a href="/john/14-12.htm" title="Truly, truly, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to my Father.">John 14:12</a></span>, that they should do greater works than he did. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="16"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-16.htm">Acts 5:16</a></div><div class="verse">There came also a multitude <i>out</i> of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.</div> The variety and grievousness of these evils did but the more commend the power which was present with the apostles. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">They were healed every one; </span> an evidence that these cures were not wrought by second causes, for the best medicines do not always succeed; as also, in that they were perfectly and suddenly cured who were thus miraculously cured, the God of nature restoring nature beyond what means and art could do. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="17"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-17.htm">Acts 5:17</a></div><div class="verse">Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,</div> <span class="bld">Then the high priest rose up; </span> moved at the report of these things, went out of the council to observe what was done. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">And all they that were with him; </span> there were both Pharisees and Sadducees in their sanhedrim or great council, as appears <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/23-6.htm" title="But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.">Acts 23:6</a></span>; but the high priest and a great part were at this time Sadducees. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Indignation, </span> or zeal, which is the best when kindled (as the fire on the altar) from heaven, regularly acting for God’s truth and word; and the worst when inflamed by carnal affections, and set upon wrong objects for self-ends. The pique these Sadducees had against the apostles and their doctrine, was, because they taught the resurrection, which the Sadducees denied. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="18"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-18.htm">Acts 5:18</a></div><div class="verse">And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.</div> See <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/4-3.htm" title="And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold to the next day: for it was now eventide.">Acts 4:3</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="19"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-19.htm">Acts 5:19</a></div><div class="verse">But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,</div> God useth the ministry of angels, though he might otherwise do what pleaseth him. An angel rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulchre. Angels ministered to Christ, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/4-11.htm" title="Then the devil leaves him, and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.">Matthew 4:11</a></span>; and are <span class="ital">all ministering spirits, sent forth to master for them who shall be heirs of salvation, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/hebrews/1-14.htm" title="Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?">Hebrews 1:14</a></span>; and encamp round about them that fear God, <span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/34-7.htm" title="The angel of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.">Psalm 34:7</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Opened the prison doors; </span> and shut them again, after that the apostles were gone out, as appears <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/5-23.htm" title="Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.">Acts 5:23</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="20"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-20.htm">Acts 5:20</a></div><div class="verse">Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.</div> <span class="bld">Stand; </span> the word implies courage and stedfastness of mind, as well as such a posture of the body. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">All the words; </span> without preferring some acceptable truths before others more ungrateful, if necessary towards their salvation. Christ for a time did limit them; they might not tell any <span class="ital">that he was Jesus the Christ, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/matthew/16-20.htm" title="Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.">Matthew 16:20</a></span>, nor the vision which they had seen in his transfiguration, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/17-9.htm" title="And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.">Matthew 17:9</a></span>. Now this prohibition is taken off. Thus the sun does not shine in his full glory all at once. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">This life; </span> some admit of an hypallage, and join the pronoun to the other substantive, reading in this place, <span class="ital">these words of life; </span> and the rather because by <span class="ital">this life</span> is ordinarily understood the present, temporary life, as in <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-19.htm" title="If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.">1 Corinthians 15:19</a></span>: but there needs not this translatitious sense; by <span class="ital">this life, </span> the angel might very well understand eternal life and salvation, for that was it which the Sadducees denied, and for the preaching of which life the apostles were imprisoned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="21"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-21.htm">Acts 5:21</a></div><div class="verse">And when they heard <i>that</i>, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.</div> <span class="bld">When they heard that; </span> having received a command from God, they resolved to obey him rather than man. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Early in the morning; </span> taking the first opportunity, though they could not but be sensible of the danger they ran into. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The council; </span> the sanhedrim, or great council. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The senate; </span> the judges of their inferior courts, or the chief amongst the priests or senators; either living in the city, or coming thither upon that festival occasion. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="22"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-22.htm">Acts 5:22</a></div><div class="verse">But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,</div> These men, thus sent to hinder the spreading of the gospel, could not but be a means of confirming it, when they saw, and declared what they found; so easily can God make use of what is intended against his truth and people unto the advantage of either. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="23"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-23.htm">Acts 5:23</a></div><div class="verse">Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.</div> All means imaginable were used to secure their prisoners; but when God will deliver, what can keep them? When God will work, who can hinder? <span class="bld"><a href="/job/11-10.htm" title="If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?">Job 11:10</a></span>. It is strange, that so great evidence of the innocence of the apostles, and truth of their doctrine, should be ineffectual; but prejudice is insuperable, unless to the mighty power of the grace of God; and this blindness cannot be cured, but by God’s <span class="ital">Ephphatha.</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="24"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-24.htm">Acts 5:24</a></div><div class="verse">Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.</div> <span class="bld">The captain of the temple; </span> the commander over the soldiers who were set to guard the temple, either to secure the treasure there, or to be in a readiness to suppress any tumult thereabouts; Pilate speaks of this, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/27-65.htm" title="Pilate said to them, You have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as you can.">Matthew 27:65</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The chief priests; </span> the heads of the families, or chief of the courses of the priests. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">They doubted of them; </span> by what means these wonderful things were done; for they were loth to see and acknowledge God in them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="25"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-25.htm">Acts 5:25</a></div><div class="verse">Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.</div> So true is that in <span class="bld"><a href="/isaiah/8-10.htm" title="Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.">Isaiah 8:10</a></span>, <span class="bld">Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought.</span> But, <span class="ital">The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/psalms/33-11.htm" title="The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.">Psalm 33:11</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="26"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-26.htm">Acts 5:26</a></div><div class="verse">Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.</div> <span class="bld">Brought them without violence; </span> they might, peradventure, think it needless or impossible to bind <span class="ital">them</span> against their wills, who had opened the prison, and so miraculously came out: however, another more certain reason is given of it; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">they feared the people; </span> they feared men more than God, who had done so great things amongst them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="27"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-27.htm">Acts 5:27</a></div><div class="verse">And when they had brought them, they set <i>them</i> before the council: and the high priest asked them,</div> When they are about to do the greatest injuries, they pretend to right; and will not judge them, without giving them leave to answer for themselves. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="28"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-28.htm">Acts 5:28</a></div><div class="verse">Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.</div> <span class="bld">Did not we straitly command you?</span> As indeed they had, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/4-18.htm" title="And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.">Acts 4:18</a></span>; hence they aggravated the apostles’ crime, as done out of malice, and not out of ignorance. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">This name, </span> and <span class="bld">this man’s blood, </span> are odious reflections, full of contumely against our blessed Saviour, as if he had not been worthy the naming by them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">To bring this man’s blood upon us; </span> they shunned not the sin of murder, but are afraid or ashamed of the imputation of it: as many scruple not to commit that wickedness which they would be loth to be thought guilty of, <span class="ital">Blood; </span> the punishment of his bloodshedding. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="29"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-29.htm">Acts 5:29</a></div><div class="verse">Then Peter and the <i>other</i> apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.</div> This they all agree in, and it is the common sense of all considering men; as Socrates in his apology told the Athenians, I embrace and love you, O Athenians, and yet I will obey God rather than you. This the apostles had formerly asserted, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/4-19.htm" title="But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, judge you.">Acts 4:19</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="30"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-30.htm">Acts 5:30</a></div><div class="verse">The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.</div> <span class="bld">The God of our fathers; </span> this is the rather mentioned by the apostle, that they might not think our Saviour, or they his ministers, preached any other God unto them, but him whom they had worshipped from their forefathers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Hanged on a tree; </span> a tree, or wood, which is rather mentioned than a cross, that the allusion to <span class="bld"><a href="/deuteronomy/21-23.htm" title="His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.">Deu 21:23</a></span> might be more full, where he that is hanged on a tree is accursed; and in that Christ was <span class="ital">made a curse for us, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/galatians/3-13.htm" title="Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:">Galatians 3:13</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="31"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-31.htm">Acts 5:31</a></div><div class="verse">Him hath God exalted with his right hand <i>to be</i> a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.</div> <span class="bld">Him hath God exalted with his right hand:</span> see <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/2-33.htm" title="Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.">Acts 2:33</a></span>. A Prince; to conquer and subdue all his enemies, to defend and protect his subjects. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">A Saviour; </span> to save from sin, according to his name, <span class="ital">Jesus, </span> <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/1-21.htm" title="And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.">Matthew 1:21</a></span>; viz. from the condemnation that is due unto it, and the pollution that is acquired by it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">To give repentance; </span> repentance is the gift of God; and nothing does more avail with us to repent, than the loss of Christ, (his bitter suffering and death), by whom the world is crucified unto us, <span class="bld"><a href="/galatians/6-14.htm" title="But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.">Galatians 6:14</a></span>: and if repentance includes newness of life, (as it does), who would not walk in that way which our blessed Lord hath recommended, and in which only we can enjoy him; that doing as he did, we may come at last to be where he is? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">And forgiveness of sins, </span> which never fails to accompany true repentance, and is therefore also called <span class="ital">repentance unto life, </span> <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/11-18.htm" title="When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance to life.">Acts 11:18</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="32"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-32.htm">Acts 5:32</a></div><div class="verse">And we are his witnesses of these things; and <i>so is</i> also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.</div> <span class="bld">We are his witnesses; </span> they refuse not to bear their testimony for Christ, who witnessed a good profession for us. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">So is also the Holy Ghost; </span> the Holy Ghost does witness, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. By the apostles; through his grace and strength they bear their record. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. By all the miracles that were wrought, for they were only done by his power. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. By enabling any to believe these things; which belief is his work. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>4. Not to say that the Holy Ghost was a witness of the things concerning Christ at his baptism, and the several attestations he gave, <span class="ital">saying, This is my beloved Son, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/matthew/3-17.htm" title="And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.">Matthew 3:17</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Obey him; </span> some read, believe in him, which is to the same purpose; for there is no true repentance where there is no faith; nor no saving faith where there is no repentance and amendment. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="33"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-33.htm">Acts 5:33</a></div><div class="verse">When they heard <i>that</i>, they were cut <i>to the heart</i>, and took counsel to slay them.</div> <span class="bld">They were cut to the heart; </span> they grinned with their teeth, visibly showing the rage and fury that was within them, by which they were as sawn and divided asunder; malice and rage being a grievous torment to the cruel and malicious, o gar megav ponov to mh zhn kalwv.. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="34"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-34.htm">Acts 5:34</a></div><div class="verse">Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;</div> <span class="bld">A Pharisee; </span> this sect was accounted more mild than the Sadducees. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Named Gamaliel; </span> it is thought that this man was the same at whose feet Paul sat, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/22-3.htm" title="I am truly a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.">Acts 22:3</a></span>: that he was the instructor to Barnabas and St. Stephen, with many other stories concerning him, are doubtful; howsoever, God made use of him, though as yet an enemy to his church and people, to plead for and protect them to his power. God can effect any thing without or against means, and suddenly to make such as were against him to be for him and his truth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Commanded to put the apostles forth; </span> that they might consult amongst themselves what to do with them: thus <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/4-15.htm" title="But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,">Acts 4:15</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="35"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-35.htm">Acts 5:35</a></div><div class="verse">And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.</div> A wise and good caution; for he that injures another brings the worse mischief upon himself, both in the sense of having done evil, and in being exposed to the revenging hand of God, whose property vengeance is, <span class="bld"><a href="/hebrews/10-30.htm" title="For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, said the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.">Hebrews 10:30</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="36"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-36.htm">Acts 5:36</a></div><div class="verse">For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.</div> <span class="ital">Before these days; </span> probably under the reign of Augustus, as he whom Josephus mentions was another under the reign of Claudius. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Theudas; </span> some suppose it a contracted name of Theodorus, as Demas is thought to be of Demetrius; though others think it to be of a Hebrew original. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="37"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-37.htm">Acts 5:37</a></div><div class="verse">After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, <i>even</i> as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.</div> <span class="bld">Judas of Galilee; </span> whether this was the same Judas who was called Gaulonite, from the place of his birth, a town in or near Galilee, and Galileus, from the province itself in which he was born, it is not so material to discuss, Josephus makes mention of two of this name. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The taxing; </span> setting down all their names at the command of the Roman emperor, whereby, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. They professed themselves to be his subjects. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. They paid him a certain rate, in token of subjection, for every head, as poll money. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. By this means he knew the number of his subjects, and the strength or weakness of every province. This was another tax than that mentioned <span class="bld"><a href="/luke/2-2.htm" title="(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)">Luke 2:2</a></span>, which is there called the first. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="38"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-38.htm">Acts 5:38</a></div><div class="verse">And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:</div> <span class="bld">And now I say unto you; </span> he undertakes to advise them what they should do in the present case. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Refrain from these men; </span> have nothing to do with them, as Pilate’s wife advised him concerning our Saviour, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/27-19.htm" title="When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have you nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.">Matthew 27:19</a></span>. Gamaliel interposes, partly out of his moderate and mild disposition; partly out of fear, lest if they slew the apostles they might incense the Romans, who were very jealous of their authority, and had taken away the power of capital punishments from the Jews. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">For if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; </span> this argument, or dilemma, which Gamaliel uses for the sparing of the apostles, is of force either way; as that question our Saviour propounds concerning the baptism of John, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/21-25.htm" title="The baptism of John, from where was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why did you not then believe him?">Matthew 21:25</a></span>. This first part is evident, for that building must needs fall which is built upon the sand, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/7-27.htm" title="And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.">Matthew 7:27</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="39"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-39.htm">Acts 5:39</a></div><div class="verse">But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.</div> The other part of the dilemma. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">The counsel of the Lord, that shall stand, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/proverbs/19-21.htm" title="There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.">Proverbs 19:21</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm" title="Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:">Isaiah 46:10</a></span>; and it must needs be so, for all power is his, in whom we live and move, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/17-28.htm" title="For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.">Acts 17:28</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Fight against God; </span> they who afflict and contend with his people unjustly, though they little think so, set themselves against God, who will overcome at the last, and triumph over his and his people’s enemies. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="40"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-40.htm">Acts 5:40</a></div><div class="verse">And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten <i>them</i>, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.</div> <span class="bld">To him they agreed; </span> they yielded to his reason and argument, being persuaded and convinced by it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Beaten them; </span> this was what our Saviour had foretold them, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/10-17.htm" title="But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will whip you in their synagogues;">Matthew 10:17</a></span>; and thus the husbandmen took the householder’s servants and beat them, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/21-35.htm" title="And the farmers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.">Matthew 21:35</a></span>. They had power yet left them by the Romans to punish offenders in their synagogues, but not capitally nor publicly. In this they left the good advice of Gamaliel, who had warned them not to fight against God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="41"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-41.htm">Acts 5:41</a></div><div class="verse">And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.</div> <span class="bld">Rejoicing; </span> it argued full persuasion of the truth, and great resolution to abide by it, that they could account so foul a disgrace for Christ’s sake to be an honour. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">That they were counted worthy to suffer; </span> it is a condescension and favour, when God uses any to give testimony unto his trnth, although it be by their suffering: <span class="bld"><a href="/philippians/1-29.htm" title="For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;">Philippians 1:29</a></span>, <span class="ital">Unto you it is given, not only to believe, but to suffer; </span> as if to suffer for Christ were as great, if not a greater gift than to believe in him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Shame; </span> scourging being a servile and disgraceful punishment. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">For his name; </span> Christ’s name, or for Christ’s sake, to assert his truth, &c.: some do not read the pronoun, but <span class="ital">the name, </span> put absolutely for God, as was usual amongst the Jews, out of reverence to God’s name, lest they should profane it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="42"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/acts/5-42.htm">Acts 5:42</a></div><div class="verse">And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.</div> This is the same with what we read <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/20-20.htm" title="And how I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,">Acts 20:20</a></span>, <span class="ital">publicly, and from house to house; </span> that is, in the temple, and public places, they preached unto the Jews; and in more private places, (or houses), where they saw it needful; unto such they conversed with. They visited their flock, and instructed, exhorted, comforted them as their condition required. See the power of the grace of God; these were the men who forsook Christ when the soldiers came to apprehend him, they durst not be seen in his company; yet now they profess his name, and abide by their profession, though they are derided and beaten for it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Matthew Poole's Commentary<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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